kontainapp / km

Kontain Monitor
http://kontain.app
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Benchmarks would be nice to see, kontainers being faster than a classic container, but by how much? #1824

Open ericcurtin opened 3 months ago

ericcurtin commented 3 months ago

I thought this was an interesting line in the project description:

In fact, Kontain can generate smaller artifacts with much faster startup times than "classic" Docker containers.

would be curious to see the performance difference in say running a classic container with just a /usr/bin/true binary and it's libraries vs a kontainer with unikernel running /usr/bin/true.

It also makes me think, what the hell are classic container runtimes doing that makes them slower than a microVM running a hypervisor lol. But it would be interesting to see the actual numbers.